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Happy 10th Tuna Festival generals!!!! :)



5 September 2008 333 views 15 Comments

Today, September 5, 2008 marks the 40th Anniversary of the charterhood of General Santos City.  It also serves as the culmination of the week-long !0th Tuna Festival which honors the industry that has placed this city of over a million people in the map.

Indeed, despite its young age, GenSan has achieved more than what any other city on the same league has.  Three times it was hailed as MOST COMPETITIVE MID-SIZED CITY, Cleanest City in the Philippines, and a lot more.  It has also been known as the Wellspring of Winners having produced sons and daughters who have gained prominence all over the country and all over the world in their own fields of endeavor. As the DTI 12 slogan says, “Galing ng Gensan, Galing ng Gensan”.

Let me then leave everyone with these few pictures I took this morning at the opening of the activities for the culmination of the 10th Tuna Festival.  It’s Bariles Republic’s way of saying, “HAPPY 10THE TUNA FESTIVAL EVERYONE!”.

Mabuhay ang mga generals!  :)



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  • Toinks said:

    Thank you so much Mr. Bariles!! god bless you. :-)

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    - 5 September 2008 at 10:21 am
  • Toinks said:

    Happy 10th Tuna Festival General Santos City!! :-)

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    - 5 September 2008 at 10:22 am
  • blackmeat said:

    Happy Tuna Fest.. painom ka naman, sir avel.. Ahehe!

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    - 5 September 2008 at 3:19 pm
  • gensanite said:

    Happy 40th Charter Anniversary, General Santos City… :D

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    - 5 September 2008 at 5:56 pm
  • jm_21052000 said:

    nice one… :) happy 10th tuna festival to all generals! i’m proud of being one! :)

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    - 5 September 2008 at 6:11 pm
  • jm_21052000 said:

    Mr. avel, bakit po mukhang inedit yung 2nd pcture? @_@

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    - 5 September 2008 at 6:13 pm
  • gilbertyaptan said:

    Avel, narepair na ba yung dulo ng index finger (yung nakaturo sa sirang watch tower) ng statue ni general santos? malapit na kasi yung ma-amputate eh. :)

    happy 40th charter anniversary generals!

    gilbertyaptans last blog post..A General in Youngblood

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    - 5 September 2008 at 6:23 pm
  • friendly neighbor said:

    Ola!

    Congrats are in order for the men and women behind the tuna festival who braved the scorching heat and pouring rains that attended the celebration.

    However, there are disturbing phrases and remarks oft repeated during the last few years of tunafest as well as kalilangan celebrations. And this collective identification of residents of the city as “generals” is I suppose the most stupid thing to come out in this part of the world.

    The word “general” in reference to residents here bespeaks of sore lack of history and of our local leaders who appear to relish the description.

    It also betray the colonial mentality of whoever coined the word and exposed the conquistador character of those who took advantage of the so-called resettlement policy of past Philippine governmnets.

    Perhaps it is time to review the city’s past and critically study the man from whose name this place was named after.

    This is not to antagonize the heirs of the late General Paulino Santos whose sons and daughters, grandchildren and great grand children have lived lives worthy of emulating.

    But what role exactly did the general played during the Japanese occupation period and how did he conduct himself in bringing the settlers here and opened this part of the then undivided Cotabato empire.

    For the sake of the memory of the late general, please stop naming residents here as one.

    It

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    - 5 September 2008 at 7:47 pm
  • jm_21052000 said:

    mr. avel, ano po coming events sa gensan after the tuna festival? :)

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    - 5 September 2008 at 11:21 pm
  • orman said:

    ang masasabi ko lang - wag nating kalimutan ang nakaraan pero wag naman nating gawing hadlang ang mga nangyari noon para sa mga desisyong ginagawa natin ngayon. simple lang masasabi ko… call me a general anytime. am proud of it. keber ang kung anik anik na colonial mentality chuva dyan. symantics lang yan. ang importante — ang pagkatao natin ngayon. kung positibo ang dating mo… mas maige. kung negatibo — umayos ka at wag kang magtago sa pangalang hindi iyo dahil mas malala pa tayo sa mga pinupuna natin kung tayo mismo ay nagtatago sa sariling aparador natin. yun lang. HAPPY CHARTER ANNIVERSARY, GENSAN!

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    - 6 September 2008 at 11:15 am
  • Dexter | Tech At Hand Dot Net said:

    Dito sa saudi mahal yang mga isdang ganyan

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    - 6 September 2008 at 3:22 pm
  • Pacquiao VS Dela Hoya said:

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    - 6 September 2008 at 4:55 pm
  • bing said:

    HAPPY 10TH TUNA FESTIVAL

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    - 7 September 2008 at 9:41 am
  • TISOY said:

    @jm_21052000 - hindi yun inedit sa lens yan parang malayo ang dating focus niya ung sydney hotel..akala mo inalis ung statue…

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    - 11 September 2008 at 7:27 pm
  • GenSan’s Tuna Festival wins 2nd Best Festival in the country, and more! | said:

    [...] the Association of Tourism Officers of the Philippines (ATOP) awarded General Santos City’s TUNA FESTIVAL as the country’s 2nd Best Tourism Event - Chartered City [...]

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    - 11 October 2008 at 11:26 am

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